The pupæ in both orders attach themselves by means of the adherent
feet; those of the Cirripedes to rocks, shells, turtles, drift-wood,
ships, etc.,—those of the Rhizocephala to the abdomen of Crabs,
_Porcellanæ,_ and Hermit Crabs. The carapace of the Cirripedes becomes
converted, as is well-known, into a peculiar test, on account of which
they were formerly placed among the Mollusca, and the natatory feet
grow into long cirri, which whirl nourishment towards the mouth, which
is now open. The Rhizocephala remain astomatous; they lose all their
limbs completely, and appear as sausage-like, sack-shaped or discoidal
excrescences of their host, filled with ova (Figs. 59, 60); from the
point of attachment closed tubes, ramified like roots, sink into the
interior of the host, twisting round its intestine, or becoming
diffused among the sac-like tubes of its liver. The only manifestations
of life which persist in these _non plus ultras_ in the series of
retrogressively metamorphosed Crustacea, are powerful contractions of
the roots, and an alternate expansion and contraction of the body, in
consequence of which water flows into the brood-cavity and is again
expelled, through a wide orifice.[8]
Fig. 59. Young of Peltogaster socialis on the abdomen of a small Hermit
Crab; in one of them the fasciculately ramified roots in the liver of
the Crab are shown. Animal and roots deep yellow. Fig. 60. Young
Sacculina purpurea with its roots; the animal purple-red, the roots
dark grass-green. Magnified. Figs. 61 to 63. Eggs of Tetraclita porosa
in segmentation, magnified. The larger of the two first-formed spheres
of segmentation is always turned towards the pointed end of the egg.
Fig. 64. Egg of Lernæodiscus Porcellanæ, in segmentation, magnified 90
Fig. 59. Young of _Peltogaster socialis_ on the abdomen of a small
Hermit Crab; in one of them the fasciculately ramified roots in the
liver of the Crab are shown. Animal and roots deep yellow.
Fig. 60. Young _Sacculina purpurea_ with its roots; the animal
purple-red, the roots dark grass-green. Magnified.
Figs. 61–63. Eggs of _Tetraclita porosa_ in segmentation, magnified.
The larger of the two first-formed spheres of segmentation is always
turned towards the pointed end of the egg.
Fig. 64. Egg of _Lernæodiscus Porcellanæ,_ in segmentation, magnified.
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